υἱοῦ (uiou) in Matthew 1:1: Noun Genitive Singular Masculine
υἱοῦ (uiou) in Matthew 1:1
Textual Witness
The witness reads υἱοῦ in Matthew 1:1 within the phrase about the genesis of Jesus Christ, David, and Abraham.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form quietly reinforces that the verse is introducing lineage, so the reader should hear relation and descent before any wider theological inference.
How To Communicate It
In translation or teaching, render the phrase in a way that preserves genealogy and relationship, since the grammar serves the passage's introductory purpose.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Genitive case suggests relationship here, but the surrounding names determine the exact sense.
- Masculine grammatical gender is a form feature and should not be turned into a theological gender claim.
What Does The Label Mean?
Noun: the word names a person or relationship, here a familial or descent term used in a title-like chain.
Genitive: the form usually marks relationship, source, or association, and here it links the noun to the names that follow.
Singular: the form is grammatically singular in this occurrence and refers to one son or one descendant relation at a time.
Masculine: the noun belongs to the masculine grammatical class, which describes form and does not by itself make a theological claim.
What The Form Does In This Verse
It is attached to the preceding name phrase, especially in the sequence after Iesou Christou and before David.
It is governed by the surrounding genitive chain in the verse, which presents a lineage or descent relation rather than a standalone assertion.
It functions as a genitive link in the ancestry pattern, identifying David and Abraham as descent markers in the opening genealogy.
It is not the main subject of the sentence, and it does not by itself state action, equality, or a separate proposition.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The genitive son phrase establishes descent relations in Matthew's opening identification of Jesus Christ.
Genitive noun linking names in a genealogy title. marks descent or lineage relation in the opening genealogy. Attached to the son of David and son of Abraham sequence. Governed by the surrounding genitive chain. The form supports lineage identification, while Matthew's larger opening frames its messianic significance.
What relation does the form mark in the opening verse? It marks Jesus Christ in relation to David and Abraham through the son/descent chain.
Direct: The form directly supports son of or descendant of wording.
The genitive marks descent relation but does not by itself state the full messianic theology. Masculine grammar belongs to the noun son and is not a separate claim about God.
Son genitive carries the whole doctrine of Messiah by case alone: The form marks lineage; the Gospel's opening and whole narrative supply the theological claim.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads υἱοῦ in Matthew 1:1 within the phrase about the genesis of Jesus Christ, David, and Abraham.
The lemma υἱός normally means son or descendant, so the form points to a descent relation rather than a new lexical idea.
The genitive singular form fits the surrounding chain and helps show how the names are connected as ancestry, not as isolated labels.
In this verse, the form supports reading Jesus Christ within a structured genealogy that identifies him in relation to David and Abraham.
This matches the broader biblical use of son language for descent and covenant lineage, especially in genealogical and messianic settings.
For readers, the form helps signal that the verse opens with a formal ancestry statement, so the phrase should be heard as lineage language.
Do not derive a full doctrinal statement from the case ending alone, and do not treat the masculine form as a gender claim about God or persons.